Gears of War 3 dedicated servers confirmed.

One of the biggest issues thatGears of War 2faced was the lack of dedicated servers. After launch, online play was quickly plagued by a flagrant host advantage and bothersome lag spikes, sometimes even to the point of un-playability. Epic Games looks to change this with the next iteration in theGearssaga.

According to the most recent edition of the Official Xbox Magazine, or OXM,Gears of War 3will feature dedicated servers that will eliminate the irritating host advantage while downplaying any other gameplay lag that players may have faced in the second iteration ofGears.

The August 2010 issue explained the extent of the overall reduction of online woes. "Expected dedicated servers that'll reduce the lag that plaguedGears 2down to practically zero."

Well, it's about time. Why haven't titan developers like Epic Games, Infinity Ward and Bungie utilized dedicated servers in the past? The technology is there, on any platform the developer chooses (just look atBad Company 2). Freezing the game and swapping hosts is great and all, but it isn't even a viable solution when the process sometimes takes five minutes and occasionally results in a dropped game. Titles likeModern Warfare 2tend to put so much focus onto multiplayer, yet the poor networking is so disorganized that it taints any competitive, or even casual experience.

The same article dared to ask the question: willGoW3feature an extensive pre-release multiplayer beta to work out the networking kinks and issues (a laHalo: Reach)? Although the magazine wasn't able to fudge an answer out of Epic, it's an interesting thought nonetheless.Modern Warfare 2had no public beta, which left network and balance issues abundant within the title.Halo: Reach, on the other hand, displayed new and old features within its beta, allowing Bungie to repair any underlying issues (there were many) with online multiplayer.

Dedicated servers and a strong widespread beta could result in one of the most refined multiplayer experiences of 2011.source:http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=19275

Oh, sorry if old guys. Just wanted to spread the news to more people.

Wasn't that confirmed like quite a while ago?

Wasn't that confirmed like quite a while ago?

siddhu33

Also, Halo:Reach's beta was kinda smooth, even for matchmaking.

Good that it will be even better for launch though!

OH, THANK GOODNESS!

I love this series!!!!

GeoW2 is so broken by hax, it's not even fun anymore, and I love it too.

I am so pleased to here this!!! Yes, good move EPIC! It only took them three games, but they are on the ball, this is great news.:P

So consoles are becoming more and more like PC's now?ducati101

Gears 2 was the biggest dissapointment this gen for me. Gears 1 is my most played shooter this gen so i was expecting big things from gears 2.

What they need to do is get rid of this crappy TrueSkill matchmaking thats infecting games. Its gutter trash and only makes games worse. The gears 1 system was 100x better.

So consoles are becoming more and more like PC's now?ducati101

So consoles are becoming more and more like PC's now?ducati101

On topic, great news and thanks.

[QUOTE="ducati101"]So consoles are becoming more and more like PC's now?JangoWuzHere

Maybe Gears online will be enjoyable now.

Maybe Gears online will be enjoyable now.

clyde46

I dont know why i read that as Metal Gear Online.

Love that game, i should play it sometime soon.

So consoles are becoming more and more like PC's now?ducati101

TOO LATE. im already sick of gears of war having to play with lag for so longlloveLamp

That is excellent news. I rarely played the competitive multiplayer because of all of the problems. Let's hope this fixes most of them.

A playable Gears of War multiplayer!?!? o.o

I'll believe it when I see it. Last time they said the multiplayer would be flawless and we all know the crap it was.

I find this rather odd because this article noting that it was, indeed, NOT confirmed were release also today. timing shows something, though, i guess.

Everyone take note, this is Epics doing NOT Microsoft

Now I have somewhat of a reason to buy Xbox Live.

Its funny becasue gears 2 is now playable and it plays fine for me the most lag i get is maybe 1 out of every ten matches and that is usually to someones bad host, but eh problem is taht it took 1 1/2 years to work out all the kinks. SO hopefully Epic does right and makes sure their game is poilished, i notice that he is ditching the whole slogan thing fo his game, last game was "bigger better more bad ass" now it "it will be the best most polished Gears fo war to date" which makes me think theya re actually trying to make this last installment amazing.

Everyone take note, this is Epics doing NOT Microsoft

gamer-adam1

I'd be fine without dedicated servers if every developer could just nail their netcode as well as Bungie does. Dedicated servers are a pain because if the host quits that's it, game over, whereas games like Halo will quickly choose a new host to keep the game going. Still, dedicated servers are definitely welcome seeing as Epic have shown twice now that they simply cannot do decent netcode. Ninja-Hippo

I guess playing Gears 3 online may actually be worth it this time around. And with hopefully bots as well.

As much as I want this to be true, it looks like Mark Rein was misquoted :(:

Mark Rein was misquoted. We have not announced dedicated servers.

Maybe they'll officially announce it later on?

As much as I want this to be true, it looks like Mark Rein was misquoted :(:

Mark Rein was misquoted. We have not announced dedicated servers.

Maybe they'll officially announce it later on?

Episode_Eve

That's a shame. More devs should step up to the plate and include dedicated servers - it really extends the longevity of the online portion (and as such, the consumer's willingness to pay for DLC - something you'd think devs would have realized by now).

So consoles are becoming more and more like PC's now?ducati101

thats great news, lag is the devil

I guess playing Gears 3 online may actually be worth it this time around. And with hopefully bots as well.

foxhound_fox

[QUOTE="ducati101"]So consoles are becoming more and more like PC's now?heretrix

[QUOTE="heretrix"]

[QUOTE="ducati101"]So consoles are becoming more and more like PC's now?ducati101

OMG FINALLY! gears 2 and even gears 1 lag problems made it unplayable.

[QUOTE="ducati101"][QUOTE="heretrix"]Did you just wake up from a deep sleep or something?

fastr

[QUOTE="Episode_Eve"]

As much as I want this to be true, it looks like Mark Rein was misquoted :(:

Mark Rein was misquoted. We have not announced dedicated servers.

Maybe they'll officially announce it later on?

psn8214

That's a shame. More devs should step up to the plate and include dedicated servers - it really extends the longevity of the online portion (and as such, the consumer's willingness to pay for DLC - something you'd think devs would have realized by now).

Dedicated Servers are not so important, if the netcode is improved...

Heck, look at the Halo;Reach beta!

That was pretty smooth (for a Beta), and was comparable with dedicated servers, and verystreamlined.

If Epic can do a job like Bungie (And have a BETA!!!), then dedicated servers may not matter as much.

YES!

Now those bums online won't complain about host advantage every time I destroy them. :P